Jenny Singer is a freelance writer and a former Forward staff writer. She writes a weekly Substack about living with anxiety, called “Uneasy Going.”
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze A Jewish Woman Will Direct ‘Black Widow’ Standalone Movie
Australian director Cate Shortland will direct Marvel’s standalone “Black Widow” movie, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. Shortland is a decorated director known for films like “Lore,” a 2012 drama about the lives of the children of Nazis immediately following the Holocaust. She will direct Scarlett Johansson in a movie focused on her character the Black Widow,…
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The Schmooze Attention, World: Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren Has A Hot, Famous Nephew
I had a torrid affair with former Israeli ambassador to America Michael Oren’s nephew, the actor Jon Rudnitsky. It lasted 16 hours and existed entirely inside my head and I am hear to tell you all about it. Let’s meet Jon Rudnitsky, actor in “Set It Up” and “Home Again,” formerly of Saturday Night Live:…
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The Schmooze Roy Moore: I’m Glad To Be Duped By Sasha Baron Cohen, That’s How Much I Love Israel
Say what you will about trickster comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, but aren’t you glad that it was he who brought Roy Moore’s name back into the news and not, say, a 13-year-old? Disgraced Alabama judge Roy Moore has issued a defiant statement explaining that he attended what he believed to be a conference honoring Israel’s…
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The Schmooze Emmy Nominations 2018: Larry David, ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ and All Else Jewish
The 2018 Emmy nominations dropped late Thursday morning. The Television Academy award show nominates, by our humble calculus, approximately 900 million people each year. Nevertheless, we have worked tirelessly to determine which people are people of the book. Here are all the Jews and Jewish projects nominated in major categories: Lead Actress in a Comedy…
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The Schmooze It’s Hammer Time: ‘Shark Tank’ Stars Dive With Sharks for Shark Week
Mark Cuban, chiseled Jewish father, entrepreneur, and star of “Sharknado: 3” has swam with the fishes. Say it three times fast: The sharks on ABC’s “Shark Tank” dove with sharks to raise funds for shark-related causes for Shark Week. Cuban and his fellow “sharks,” the affectionate title given to investors on the hit reality entrepreneurship…
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The Schmooze These Are America’s Richest Self-Made Jewish Women
Forbes Magazine has released the list of the 62 richest self-made women in America — women whose wealth results not from inheritance but rather from entrepreneurship. 17 of the women are Jewish, meaning that Jews occupy over 27% of the list. (Note: Jews represent two percent of Americans.) The combined fortune of the women on…
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The Schmooze Joe Walsh: Baron Cohen Lured Me To An Interview With A Fake Pro-Israel Award
Former Illinois Congressman, current radio host, and relentless Tea Partier Joe Walsh posted his harrowing story of deception and false pretense on Twitter late Tuesday night. The victim: Walsh, the charming fellow behind controversies like calling Stevie Wonder “another ungrateful black multi-millionaire” for taking a knee during a national anthem. The nationally syndicated Walsh is…
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The Schmooze Sarah Palin: ‘Piece Of S—-’ Sacha Baron Cohen Conned Me Into An Interview
Sarah Palin came clean on Facebook on Tuesday: she is the victim of a scam. The former governor of Alaska admitted that she submitted to an interview with a “disabled US Veteran” and only recently learned that the wheelchair-bound “veteran” was none other than comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in disguise. Ah yes, we’ve all been…
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